Synonyms for nation-building
na·tion-build·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "nation-building":

   jianguo, konkuk, state-building, statehood

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1. Harry Verhoeven:

   There is very little appetite for nation building, it would cost a lot. Which countries are going to contribute troops to go to South Sudan?

2. Mark Hemingway:

   [He] sought departure from nation-building, [but] he was a hawk on American interests and use of military to achieve political goals, when Trump iced Iran's top general while he was driving around in Iraq, he sent a message to every other world leader that America, under Trump, was not to be messed with.

3. Lee Kuan Yew:

   Soon I will be calling elections to ask for your mandate, to take Singapore into this next phase of our nation building.

4. Barack Obama:

   The time of deploying large numbers of ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation-building overseas that's coming to an end, going forward, our military will be leaner.

5. Lord Borwick of Hawkshead:

   I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own.